GRE Word List
SPRUCE
to make spruce
The meaning of the word spruce is to make spruce.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
| conclave | a private meeting or secret assembly |
| tithe | a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax especially for the support of a religious establishment |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |